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Lifelong Toon Fan Chris Savage said it was important to get children interested in the team at a young age.

He brought his young son Kieran along for the day.

He said: “It’s fantastic, you can see everyone is having a nice time and all the kids are getting involved. With the prices of season tickets it’s nice for the club to open their doors, kids can come in and see the first team and get that experience. You’ve got them young get them hooked onto it. It’s good to see all the smiling faces.”

Despite signing Christian Atsu, Florian Lejeune, Jacob Murphy, Javier Manquillo and Joselu in the transfer window fans were still critical that no big names had been brought to Tyneside.

Chris said: “We could do better, no offence to the lads coming in but we could do better, again he is working with what he is got and the club have said that’s what we have got to do so we’ve got to get behind the team.

“Of course everyone wants to see a world class signing break the transfer record but this might not be the season to do it so we’ve got to get behind the lads that we’ve got. There’s no stand out solo star but they work better as a team.”